From Start 2 Finish

How many times have you started a new project and didn’t finish it? I can remember doing this several times. When need to practice more follow-through-it-ness. I coined that phrase. This is the power to start a project through to the finish.

”There is nothing so fatal to character as half finished tasks.” David Lloyd George

“For every finish-line tape a runner breaks - complete with the cheers of the crowd and the clicking of hundreds of cameras - there are the hours of hard and often lonely work that rarely gets talked about.” Grete Waitz

Unlimited Power

"Deep within man dwell those slumbering powers; powers that would astonish him, that he never dreamed of possessing; forces that would revolutionize his life if aroused and put into action." ~ Orison Swett Marden

Did you know that you have within you the power to do miraculous things? Pull out your list of 10 most important strengths that you made on Monday. Take 3 strengths that you use most often from that list. Work on those three strengths daily.

By working on these strengths daily you will perfect them. By adding power to your strengths you assume unlimited power within those respective areas.

Act Now

Many projects get scraped because of a person(s) inability to act.
Have you ever procrastinated or postponed a project? The longer you
put it off the harder it was to return to the project wasn’t it.

Today, I want to go over the power of acting now.

Acting Now
As a writer I tell other writers everyday. Write everyday. The more
you do something the more it becomes a part of who you are. There
is no time like the present to start that project.

Nothing is accomplished on the sidelines. It all happens on the playing
field.

"A beginning is a cause, and as such it must be followed by an effect,
or a train of effects, and the effect will always be of the same nature
as the cause. The nature of an initial impulse will always determine the
body of its results. A beginning also presupposes an ending, a consummation,
achievement, or goal." - Byways of Blessedness

Changes
Unfortunately, some people believe their schedules are more important than
their lives." David Leonhardt, as quoted in The Reader's Digest

Change starts by accessing where you are right now? The exercise that I gave
your to do yesterday will help you access this now. Remember the exercise
that I gave you to do yesterday? Grab it now so we can utilize your 10 most
important strengths and your 10 most important things in your life right now.

Here’s what mines looks like:

10 Most Important Strengths
Communication, Writing, Motivator, Analytical Focus, Adaptability, Leadership, Achiever, Positive, Strategic, Persuasive

10 Most Important Things in my Life now
Family, Health, Writing, Spirituality, Self Control, Self Confident, Abundance,
Influencing & Developing Others, Creativity, Learning

Now by utilizing my 10 strengths and 10 important things in my life now I
will set up 2 major changes in my life.

Develop an act now policy in your day to day activities.

Here are 2 changes I am making right now.

Writing 1-3 hours a day, five times a week (On vacation or not).
Spending more time with my family and doing more activities together

Tomorrow
Stop putting off what you can do today for tomorrow, or next week. What
you choose to do today will or will not be included in your obituary tomorrow.

Acting now changes tomorrow. So act now, while the going is good and
tomorrow will be greater than yesterday.

TIOS

Do you know what TIOS is? TIOS is an acronym that I am going to share with you. It will be the key thought of this week.

I will also be posting five times a week as before. I have so much to share with you this week. So let’s get started.

TIOS stands for taking inventory of self. When was the last time that you took inventory of yourself?

We are going to do this right now. Open up a word document or get a blank piece of paper to write down the following questions.

1. What are my 10 strengths?

2. What are the 10 most important things in my life right now?

3. What are 5 goals that you want to reach in the next 1-3 years? What is your time frame for each goal? Design your plan for acquiring each of these goals and get to it right away.

Now keep all your answers with you because we are going to refer to them this week. I will see you tomorrow.

The Perception Deception

Have you ever been caught doing something that you weren’t supposed to do?

Did you dwell upon being punished for your crime or misdemeanor against whomever or whatever you transgressed against?

I have been there before. Getting caught cursing while fighting with someone when I was about eight years old. I just knew I would get the lynching of a lifetime from my parents.

I received a spanking from my dad. But you know what? It wasn’t as bad as I imagined it was going to be.

Oftentimes, we perceive the worst is going to happen to us. We conjure up those what’s the worst that can happen ideas and sprint with them. I call this the perception deception because we allow our perception of events to deceive us.

Our perception is our reality. By changing our perception of an event we change the reality of that event.

A Fixated Desire

When was the last time that you had a fixated desire for something? It could have been a craving for a piece of chocolate, a desire for a new relationship, or even finding a new job. Whatever your fixated desire was, you decided in your mind and heart not to give up until you acquired what you wanted.

You were unwavering until that chomping into the candy that made your tastebuds skip for joy, you were unwavering until you received that job the you wanted, you were unwavering until you found that special someone to start new relationship bond.

We all need a fixated desire about the things we truly want to have in our lives.

"The person with a fixed goal, a clear picture of his desire, or an ideal always before him, causes it, through repetition, to be buried deeply in his subconscious mind and is thus enabled, thanks to its generative and sustaining power, to realize his goal in a minimum of time and with a minimum of physical effort. Just pursue the thought unceasingly. Step by step you will achieve realization, for all your faculties and powers become directed to that end."~ Claude M. Bristol